Lelu BLM sets up student relief fund as loan forgiveness stalls
MOSCOW 鈥?The U.S. ambassador to Russia visited Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan in a remote Russian prison on Thursday, as U.S. officials try to persuade Russian officials to agree to a proposal for gaining his release. Paul has been wrongfully detained in Russia for more than four years, and his release remains an absolute priority, Ambassador Lynne Tracy wrote on Twitter. The U.S. government will continue to engage Russian authorities on his case so Paul can come home as soon as possible. Tracy did not comment on Whelans condition or say what she discussed with the retired U.S. Marine, who was detained in 2018 and is serving a 16-year sentence for espionage. Whelan and Washington deny he spied in Russia.The Biden administration had hoped to secure Whelans release during the negotiations on the prisoner exchange th stanley quencher at eventually freed American basketball star Brittney Griner from a Russian pris stanley quencher on in December.U.S. officials have said that Washington presented a serious proposal to Moscow to try to get Whelan out.Analysts ha stanley cup ve pointed out that Moscow may be using jailed Americans as bargaining chips in soaring U.S.-Russian tensions over the Kremlins military operation in Ukraine.Another American jailed in Russia is Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested March 29 and accused of trying to obtain classified information.Gershkovich is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained in Russia on spying charges, which his f Xetr Equifax finds additional 2.4 million impacted by 2017 breach
TAMPA, Fla. 鈥?Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday it appears a navigational error caused the crews of two Navy boats to stray into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf, where they were detained overnight by Iran and released. They obviously had misnavigated 鈥?thats how they believe they ended up in this circumstance, Carter said in an interview in Miami with Fusion network. They did not report this navigational error at the time. It may be that they were trying to sort it out at the time they encountered Iranian boats. 鈥?We dont know that fully yet. Carter later flew to Tampa to meet with leaders of U.S. Central Command, which oversees the U.S. military in the Middle East. At a news conference at Central Command headquarters, he declined to discuss the circumstances in more detail. He said it would be prudent to first finish debriefing all 10 returned sailors.Asked h stanley us is view of the video released by Iranian media showing the Americans kneeling aboard their boats with their hands on the heads, Carter said, Obviously I dont like to see our people being detained by a foreign military. He said this was the scene as depicted by Iranian media and that he wants to hear from the U.S. crews before commenting further. We need to give these guys the opportunity to tell us what was really goi stanley thermos ng on. Less than a d stanley water bottle ay after being detained on Irans Farsi Island in the Gulf, the 10 U.S. sailors were back with their American fleet. Navy officials said the 10 were undergoing what the mi |